Engineering Intern - Energy & Resources (Summer 2027)

Stantec; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

Stantec invites engineering student interns to join our Southern California team, offering hands-on experience in power delivery projects and collaborative work with seasoned professionals. You’ll contribute to design tasks, CAD drafting, and client interactions while developing practical skills for a future career in engineering.

Ideal candidates are enrolled in mechanical engineering coursework, motivated, and dependable, seeking real-world experience in a leading engineering consulting firm.

Qualifications

• College student currently taking or completed mechanical engineering coursework.
• Motivated and dependable candidate with a strong work ethic.
• Internship wage is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support for design projects and CAD drafting, coordinating with engineering disciplines and CAD designers.
• Review design calculations, prepare reports, research products, and participate in site visits and project tasks.

Skills

CAD drafting

Design coordination

Education

Mechanical engineering coursework

Tools

CAD

Job description

Learning begins in the classroom but there’s no better place to gain real-world experience than with Stantec. Interns are an integral part of our teams, working to solve some of the world's most complex challenges.

As an intern, you’ll work alongside our experienced practitioners and with our clients and communities. This hands‑on experience will equip you with practical skills, build your network, and provide opportunities that set you up for success.

Explore a career that takes on one of the world’s largest challenges – Energy. At Stantec, you can become part of a team that designs local, national, and international power delivery projects that power the globe with safe, reliable, renewable and clean energy. Stantec is an industry leading consultant engineering firm that is actively involved with a wide range of power delivery projects.

Your Opportunity

Stantec's Energy practice has an opportunity for highly motivated Engineering Student Interns to join our team in Southern California to work on power delivery projects. This is a great opportunity to work with industry leading professionals in your field of study.

Candidates should be highly motivated and dependable students who are taking or have taken applicable mechanical engineering courses. This is a terrific opportunity for a college student to make impactful contributions to relevant projects, learn about the power delivery and consulting engineering industries, and earn a competitive wage!

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support for a variety of design projects, coordination with other engineering disciplines and CAD designers.
• Responsibilities will include drawing production (CAD drafting, sketches, etc.), review of design calculations and report preparation, product research and outreach, occasional site visits, and various project-related tasks.